The Lost Gold of Burkina Faso – A Parliamentary Inquiry into the Mining Sector

Katja Werthmann (SFB 1199 & Leipzig U)

Publication Date

December 2016

Publisher

Resource Worlds

Language

English

Type

Article

Additional Information

About the Blog

Resource Worlds explores the ways in which natural resources and their extraction shape and affect societies, global connections, and individual lifeworlds.

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Biographical Note

Prof. Dr. Katja Werthmann (SFB 1199 & Institute of African Studies, Leipzig University, Germany)
Katja Werthmann is a professor of African society, politics, and economics at the Institute for African Studies (Leipzig U, Germany). As of 2016, she is part of the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB) 1199: “Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition” and leading the project B6: “Gold Mining and New Regulations of (Sub)National Spaces in Africa”.